Short Buddhist Poems

Short Buddhist Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Buddhist by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Buddhist by length and keyword.


Premium Member Planted - Re-Writ

a bud seeds...
it's sprout form

and bud-ism...
is growth shaping

into a buddhist...
bud and flow-air


stans sand
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Dog Mojo

Dog Mojo


My dog named Boho...
     Met a mystical Dojo.
           Boho found his Buddhist mojo.

Panagiota Romios
4/14//2019
Form: Haiku

The Buddhist At the Dentist

The Buddhist monk
Following dental examination
Refused an injection
For his required dental extrication
Instead he chose to
Transcend dental medication
Form:

Mazel Tov

A Jewish attorney, Raskolnikov,
his Buddhist half-brother, Kaletnikov,
now here comes the bother,
they mimic each other,
so who gets 'good health!' or a 'mazel tov?'
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Buddhist Serenity

Listen to poem:
in gratitude
we went
our way
admiring
the wonder
of another
sunny day
thankful for
the happiness
in our life
humble 
yet
so blessed



AP: 3rd place 2020


Premium Member Stillness

wherever 
we go
there
will be 

decay and
absence

for the
moment
we absorb

and learn
stillness


become
silent




listen 
silently






silently
becoming

Higher Self

The wind is my soul, I am forever in motion,
I am everywhere in a moment,
Bursting forth from the moment before.
Always, I end where I start, 
From that exact same moment
Where all things began.
Form: ABC

Premium Member Body Parts

I left my hands behind miles ago.
My eyes drift 30 feet behind my body.
My heart waddles over hot gravel.
A Highway Dust Angel.
My brain took an Uber. My soul 
Bought by a Buddhist back in Biloxi.

Premium Member Stratos

Anywhere anytime
our here and now
where the night begins
passions revolving door
love’s sukah prayer






(sukah-buddhist term for the bliss and joy of 
moving through the universe with ease.)

Buddhist I

The Buddha insists on the absence of ‘I'. We banish the self if we ardently try. I’ve done meditation and hoped for salvation. So who became Buddhist? The Buddha — not I.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member On Bardo Time

Buddha numerics
Time between death and rebirth
cosmic waiting room















(bardo- intermediate space of time between 
death and rebirth. Symbolically, 7 to
49 days in Buddhist time.)
Form: Haiku

De Philosophia Poeta

I am neither a Hindu,
nor a Muslim,
nor a Christian,
nor a Sikh,
nor a Jew,
nor a Buddhist,
nor a Zoroastrian.

Darkness or Kali
as I call it
is
  my
      Religion;
Dark Nothingness
I meditate on.

Premium Member The Dude Abides!

It’s true some people follow Judaism 
and some are followers of Buddhism.
  Well I’m no Buddhist
  but a devout Dudeist  
which makes me a dude of Dudeism!
  


         Written: January 2005
Form: Limerick

Who Silently Cried For Peace

the Shaolin Buddhist Monk sit right in the center of the city square wearing bright orange sacred robe in lotus position soaked in gasoline did lite the match to himself who silently cried out for peace

Like a Child

I think like a buddhist
but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain
but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar
but rage like the sea

And love like a child
—reborn unto Thee

(First Book Of Prayers: May, 2017)
god
Form: Rhyme

Like a Child

I think like a Buddhist,
but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain,
but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar,
but rage like the sea

And love like a child
—reborn unto Thee

(1st Book Of Prayers: May, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Humbly Read For Your Own Benefit, Buddhist Utopia

We have "civilized" ourselves in a hurry, so we hurry and feel busy, VIPs:
Life is like great music, magnificent dance. It doesn't rush to the END -
If the end, the goal, was ALL, the fastest dance, the quickest song, would win
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epigram

Zeal

Buddhist: self-immolation

Muslim: blow everyone up

Christian: just shoot you

Hindu: Sikh revenge

zeal: (noun) a feeling of strong eagerness, 
	excessive fervor to do something or 
	accomplish some end
	
© Goode Guy 2012-11-27
© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Like a Child

I think like a Buddhist,
  but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain,
  but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar,
  but rage like the sea

And love like a child,
  reborn unto thee

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Sadness of Things

I'm woozy with the uncertainties of life. 
I'm staggering back and forth, 
slamming into one wall and then another. 
I cling to a banister 
wondering how it can be 
that I'm even alive.  
Bitter to be still living. 
Grateful to have survived so long.

Half Lotus

What a waste. 

This park, 
This urinal, 
This white stain. 

And I am undone. 
As always, repeating
Myself without a 
White flag in site. 

Consequences bequeth
Me and I wish 
I could pay the 
Sandman. 

But not quickly, 
no. 

A Buddhist, 
A mantra, 
A sin.

A BUDDHIST CHRISTMAS

A BUDDHIST CHRISTMAS

December date as now revised
There are lights hung on trees
Bodhi and Christmas Dharma
Jesus’ teachings are respected
Only messiah status is rejected
With a clear goodwill Karma
A difference only by degrees
Yet mutual courtesy is advised
Form: Rhyme

Beneath the Bodhi Tree

The branches here leave 

no shadows where doubt can creep 

infiltrating your conciousness; reicinirating your grief

Here, your inner consiousness makes up its mind

Your soul less curious, your mind is at ease 

Remember what you came here for

Beneath the Bodhi tree

Premium Member Revival

As Christians Chant in Buddhist Circles,
And Black and White dance in the forest of mutuality,
What is the sound of Revival?
Is it a trumpet?
Is it a tumult?
Is it a whirlwind?
Or is it simply the sobering reflection, that none of us, absolutely none of us is 
alone in this world.

Premium Member Buddhist Aura

how blessed I feel
how fortunate am I
crossing paths
with a living
buddhist monk
in flowing saffron robe
his face serene 
gaze so placid

waves of
universal peace
rippling
as he moves
along his path

the only thing
I know
is I know
nothing



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

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